To make dough by hand: Pour flour into a bowl, add salt and the butter. Using fingertips, work the butter into flour until a crumbly dough forms. Add the egg yoke and milk, incorporate, and knead dough into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Best addition to any holiday and special season cookie tray, these delicious traditional Italian cookies recipe will be a hit with family and friends alike. To make this baking recipe, almond flavored dough is rolled in pine nuts, which is then baked until golden brown.

While sipping a glass of cool, sparkling white wine, casually munching on some "crescenti" (salty flakes of fried dough), your eyes wander on the menu trying to concentrate themselves on the most promising offers for the coming meal. It's a hard choice: just for starters there are vegetable pies, stuffed zucchini, tomatoes or onions, the...

Pizza (pronounced /ˈpiːtsə/ listen , in Italian: ) (also occasionally called "pizza pie" in certain parts of the United States) is the name of an oven-baked, flat, usually round bread covered with tomato purée and often mozzarella cheese, with other toppings left optional. While originating as a part of Neapolitan cuisine, the dish has become popular in many different parts of the world. A shop or restaurant where pizzas are made and sold is called a "pizzeria" (from Italian) although the phrase "pizza parlor" is also used in the United States and Canada.Various toppings may be added, most typically:sauce, traditionally tomato-based but pesto, alfredo, barbecue sauce, and occasionally even ketchup are also used;cheese, usually mozzarella but also provolone or a blend of other cheeses;herbs and seasonings such as basil, oregano, and garlic;vegetables such as artichoke hearts, bell peppers, eggplant, olives, onions, and spinach;meat, such as sausage (pepperoni, salami or Italian sausage), ham, bacon, ground beef, and chicken, or seafood such as anchovies, tuna, and shrimp;Other common toppings include mushrooms, tomatoes, and pineapple.In some pizza recipes the tomato sauce is omitted (termed "white pizza"), or replaced with another sauce (usually garlic butter, but sauces can also be made with spinach or onions). In the Philadelphia area there are also tomato pies — sauce only, or sauce with ripe Roma tomatoes and spices but no cheese — and upside-down pizzas, i.e., the cheese on the bottom and topped with sauce. Pizza is normally eaten hot (typically at lunch or dinner), but is sometimes eaten as cold leftovers.